Alcohol Use and Violence Among Young Adults
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: age gr Approximately 40 percent of people experiencing violence are young adults ages 18 to 30; this translates into a greater risk for violence in this oup than in any other segment of the population (Perkins 1997). (Only 50 percent of these violent crimes are reported to the police, however [see Hart and Rennison 2003].) Leonard and colleagues (2002) found that 44 percent of men ages 18 to 30 in a community sample reported having experienced physical aggression, either as the target or initiator of aggression, in the past year. Among women of this age in the same sample, 28 percent reported experiencing some form of physical aggression in the past year. In a separate sample of college students (Leonard et al. 2002), 33 percent of males and 22 percent of females reported experiencing physical aggression in the past year.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: Brian M. Quigley, Kenneth E. Leonard
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1562034346